Before the 1858 publication of On the Origin of Species, author Charles Darwin developed principles of natural selection (e.g., that abundant offspring of a species must compete for limited resources) in five notebooks. Some notebook entries from fall 1838 read like outlines of parts of the concept, suggesting that the theory was idea even twenty years before his milestone publication.
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hardWhich choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A
a disputed
B
an entrenched
C
a conclusive
D
an incipient